Sarasota Real Estate News

Showing excellent sales and pending sales numbers, the  Sarasota real estate market continues to improve.  The Sarasota Association of Realtors released April sales today and they were even better than March sales. With 757 sales, the market recorded the highest total in almost 5 years. In addition, pending sales were at their highest level in [...]

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The Sarasota real estate market continues to showing excellent signs of a recovery. April sales just released by the Sarasota Association of Realtors, outdid March sales. Probably fueled by the expiration of the homebuyers tax credit, the real estate market in Sarasota “hit the highest total in almost five years.” Sales were 50% higher than April 2009.

Pending sales remain strong and hit the highest total in the past four years.

Eric Shumway, 2010 President of SAR, pointed out that “there was clearly a sense of urgency in April, reflected in higher closed sales as well as contracts written, as buyers attempted to purchase properties before the expiration of the homebuyer tax credits.” “There is a lot of enthusiasm and optimism among local real estate agents that the trend will sustain in the months to come.”

For the entire press release article: link: Read here.

If you would like to view Sarasota real estate listings, contact John Allen at 941-544-6467 or Annette Smith at 941-504-3922.  We can show you all Sarasota real estate.

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